Performing Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons mentioned he would put all ICE services on a better alert following a taking pictures at a Dallas discipline workplace on Wednesday which killed one detainee and critically wounded two others.
Whereas no officers have been injured, the Division of Homeland Safety mentioned the taking pictures was “an assault on ICE regulation enforcement.”
The suspected shooter has been recognized by regulation enforcement officers as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, a number of regulation enforcement sources informed ABC Information.
The shooter, who was on a close-by rooftop, “fired indiscriminately on the ICE constructing, together with at a van within the sallyport the place the victims have been shot,” DHS mentioned in a press release.
The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers mentioned.
Regulation enforcement brokers look across the roof of an house constructing close to the scene of a taking pictures at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace in Dallas, Sept. 24, 2025.
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DHS beforehand mentioned two detainees have been killed and one was injured; the company later issued a correction saying one died and two have been shot however survived.
One of many wounded is a Mexican nationwide, in accordance with Mexico’s Ministry of International Affairs.
Regulation enforcement and Republican politicians advised a political motive for the taking pictures, which comes amid ramped up ICE deportation efforts all through the nation. The DHS mentioned in a press release that ICE officers have confronted a greater than 1,000% improve in assaults towards them.
Two Texas services have been focused this July: a police officer was shot at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado and a gunman opened fireplace on the entrance of the Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen.
The FBI mentioned Wednesday’s taking pictures is being investigated “as an act of focused violence.”
FBI particular agent Joe Rothrock mentioned it appeared that rounds “discovered close to the suspected shooter comprise messages which are anti-ICE in nature.”
FBI Director Kash Patel launched a picture of recovered bullets, together with one engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE,” and DHS launched a photograph that seems to point out a gunshot in an American flag show.
A photograph of unspent shell casings recovered on the scene of a taking pictures on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement discipline workplace, Sept. 24, 2025 was shared by FBI Director Kash Patel on his X social media account.
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In a photograph supplied by the Division of Homeland Safety, bullet holes are seen in an American flag show following a taking pictures at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement discipline workplace in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.
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Vice President JD Vance mentioned throughout remarks in North Carolina on Wednesday that proof that has not but been launched reveals the shooter was a “left-wing extremist” who was “politically motivated to go after people who find themselves implementing our border.”
Officers mentioned that assaults on ICE and regulation enforcement should finish.
“Our prayers are with the households of these killed and our ICE regulation enforcement. This vile assault was motivated by hatred for ICE,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned in a press release. “For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE regulation enforcement earlier than somebody was killed. This taking pictures should function a wake-up name.”
Police reply to the realm across the Dallas ICE discipline workplace in Dallas, Texas, Sept 24, 2025.
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President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “That is despicable! The Courageous Males and Ladies of ICE are simply making an attempt to do their jobs, and take away the ‘WORST of the WORST’ Criminals out of our Nation, however they’re dealing with an unprecedented improve in threats, violence, and assaults by Deranged Radical Leftists.”
“This must cease,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mentioned at a information convention. “Violence is mistaken, politically motivated violence is mistaken.”
Vance mentioned, “We’re praying each for our ICE brokers, but additionally for everyone who’s affected by this horrible assault.”
Home Democratic leaders in a press release thanked the primary responders and supplied their condolences to the victims’ households.
“Nobody in America needs to be violently focused, together with our women and men in regulation enforcement who shield and serve our neighborhoods, and the immigrants who’re too usually the victims of dehumanizing rhetoric,” the Democrats’ assertion continued. “The political and ideologically-motivated violence in America has reached a breaking level this yr. We want leaders who deliver the nation collectively in moments of disaster.”
ABC Information’ Mireya Villarreal and Jim Scholz contributed to this report.
